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Funds allocated for Swachh Bharat lying unused: Study

allocated for the Swachh Bharat Mission are
lying unutilised by the three municipal corporations in the city, a a study
said. This, despite the fact that chikungunya and dengue have crippled the
national capital.The ‘Delhi Citizens Handbook 2016’ prepared by the Centre for
Civil Society, a think tank, says that of the three civic bodies, the North
corporation failed to spend even a single penny of the Rs 46.28 crore allocated
to it by the Centre under the scheme for the financial year 2015-16. In the South
Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), only 0.25 % (Rs 7.93 lakhs) of the Rs 31.63
crores received, have been put to use. Currently, the entire corpus of these
funds is lying unutilised,” the report stated.